WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted by the US for publishing classified documents – World

Julian Assange, wanted by the United States for publishing thousands of secret documents, was released from prison in Britain.

According to the BBC report, Julian Assange, 52, was released under a ‘deal’, he will plead guilty but will not be punished.

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It should be noted that Julian Assange was accused of publishing thousands of classified US documents in 2010 and 2011, which became known as the ‘WikiLeaks file’, and through these files, there was important information about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Many lives were put in danger.

He was imprisoned in a British jail for the past 5 years and was fighting a legal battle against extradition to America. According to CBS News, the American partner of the BBC, according to the agreement, Julian Assange will not be detained in the United States and his imprisonment in the United Kingdom as sentence will be added’ and Julian Assange will return to Australia, according to a letter from the Department of Justice.

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Earlier in April, US President Joe Biden said he was considering Australia’s request to drop the case against Assange. On the other hand, Julian Assange and his lawyers have always maintained that the case registered against him was made for political reasons.

Under the plea agreement between Julian Assange and the United States, the WikiLeaks founder will plead guilty to one charge and is expected to be sentenced on June 26 in a court in the Northern Mariana Islands.

US authorities wanted to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder on 18 charges, most of them under espionage laws, for releasing classified US military records and diplomatic communications about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It should be noted that earlier in 2014, a book by Julian Assange about Google has also come out, in which he claimed that Google works under American influence.